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’Arry Ballads choose

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[UK] ‘’Arry in Parry’ in Marks ’Arry Ballads (2006) 93: It’s a bloominger sky-scraping Topper.
at sky-scraper, n.1
[UK] ‘’Arry in Parry’ in Marks ’Arry Ballads (2006) 93: It’s a bloominger sky-scraping Topper.
at topper, n.3
[UK] E.J. Milliken ’Arry Ballads 13: He did know a thing or two.
at know a thing or two, v.
[UK] E.J. Milliken ’Arry Ballads 33: I jest blew away like old boots.
at blow, v.1
[UK] E.J. Milliken ’Arry Ballads 38: If some of the swells didn’t ditto, I’ll eat my old hat, which it’s tough.
at eat one’s hat, v.
[UK] E.J. Milliken ’Arry Ballads 14: I should like to go in for blue blood, and ’ang out near the clubs and the parks.
at hang out, v.1
[UK] E.J. Milliken ’Arry Ballads 44: I got into a ’obble.
at hobble, n.
[UK] E.J. Milliken ’Arry Ballads 37: As most of our plays are now cribbed from the French, wy they’re all pooty hot.
at hot, adj.
[UK] E.J. Milliken ’Arry Ballads 91: Wot with ink-slinging, hart, and all that.
at ink-slinging (n.) under ink, n.
[UK] E.J. Milliken ’Arry Ballads 42: Knocks recit-ateeves into fits.
at knock into a cocked hat (v.) under knock into, v.
[UK] E.J. Milliken ’Arry Ballads 63: Bell’s a bloomer, and, Jack thought, a bit of a jug.
at jug, n.2
[UK] E.J. Milliken ’Arry Ballads 23: I’m up to the knocker, I tell you.
at up to the knocker under knocker, n.1
[UK] E.J. Milliken ’Arry Ballads 35: Talk is like tea; it wants lacing with something a little bit stronger.
at laced, adj.
[UK] E.J. Milliken ’Arry Ballads 62: I lap lemon-squash.
at lap, v.
[UK] E.J. Milliken ’Arry Ballads 16: A jolly long shot.
at long shot, n.1
[UK] E.J. Milliken ’Arry Ballads 63: Too long in the purse to let slip.
at long, adj.
[UK] E.J. Milliken ’Arry Ballads 17: A workman well lushed shies his ’at for the Queen.
at lushed, adj.
[UK] E.J. Milliken ’Arry Ballads 6: Your monkeyings mar every pageant.
at monkey, v.
[UK] E.J. Milliken ’Arry Ballads 70: I’m mucked, that’s a moral.
at muck, v.1
[UK] E.J. Milliken ’Arry Ballads 59: You’re mugged up to rights.
at mug up, v.1
[UK] E.J. Milliken ’Arry Ballads 21: He napped me.
at nap, v.2
[UK] E.J. Milliken ’Arry Ballads 23: That nicked ’er, my nibs.
at nick, v.1
[UK] E.J. Milliken ’Arry Ballads 40: Why shouldn’t her stage trotter-out take his perks too at so much a nob.
at nob, n.1
[UK] E.J. Milliken ’Arry Ballads 37: They ain’t in it with ogles and antics and ’ints.
at ogle, n.
[UK] E.J. Milliken ’Arry Ballads 50: Wot’s yer poison, old pal?
at poison, n.
[UK] E.J. Milliken ’Arry Ballads 51: The way the passengers stared at me showed I was fair on the ramp.
at on the ramp under ramp, n.3
[UK] E.J. Milliken ’Arry Ballads 71: Mine rucked when I turned up in trousers in checks.
at ruck, v.
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